Monthly statistics of the RDA community - March 2016

All you wanted to know about

The Research Data Alliance

<NAME SURNAME>, <AFFILIATIPON><EMAIL> <TWITTER ACCOUNT>

@RESDATALL @RDA_EUROPE @RDA_US

https://rd-alliance.org/

What is RDA? RDA is an international organization focused on the development of infrastructure and community activities that reduce barriers to data sharing and exchange, and the acceleration of data driven innovation worldwide.

With more than 3,200 members globally representing more than 100 countries, RDA includes data science professionals from multiple disciplines, including but not limited to academia, library sciences, earth science, astronomy and meteorology.

RDA is building the social and technical bridges that enable open sharing of data to achieve its vision of researchers and innovators openly sharing data

across technologies, disciplines, and countries to address the grand challenges of society.

https://rd-alliance.org/about.html

What does RDA do? Members come together through self-formed, volunteer, focussed Working Groups, exploratory Interest Groups to exchange knowledge, share discoveries, discuss barriers and potential solutions, explore and define policies and test as well as harmonise standards to enhance and facilitate global data sharing.

RDA members collaborate together regionally and with the global RDA community to tackle numerous infrastructure challenges related to:

ReproducibilityData preservationBest practices for domain

repositoriesCurriculum developmentData citation

Data type registriesMetadataand so many more!


Who Can Join RDA?◦ Any individual or organization, regardless of profession or discipline,

with an interest in reducing the barriers to data sharing and exchange and who agrees to RDA’s guiding principles of:

◦ Openness◦ Consensus◦ Balance◦ Harmonization◦ Community-driven◦ Non-profit and technology-neutral

Membership is free @ http://www.rd-alliance.org/user/register


Getting involvedIndividualsObservers

Contributors

Drivers

5

Organisations Insight Adopt Drive

National level Coordination & Knowledge

Exchange, Strategy & / or Implementation

• Members• WGs-IGs-BoFs• Requests for

Comments• Plenaries

• Member• WGs-IGs-BoFs• RfCs• H2020 projects• Adoption / Uptake

• Papers & Events• Meetings & Fora• Training & Workshops• Uptake pilots

https://rd-alliance.org/about/get-involved.html

Why Join RDA?Individual RDA Member Benefits

◦ Contribute to acceleration of data infrastructure development

◦ Work and share experiences with collaborators throughout the world

◦ Access to extraordinary network of colleagues with various levels of experience, perspectives and practices

◦ Gain greater expertise in data science regardless of whether one is a student, early or seasoned career professional

◦ Enhance the quality and effectiveness of personal work and activities

◦ Improve one’s competitive advantage professionally and positioning oneself for leadership within the broader research community

Organizational RDA Member Benefits

◦ Provide an organizational perspective on the work of RDA and ability to influence RDA’s direction

◦ Assist in implementation of RDA Outputs◦ Participate in all RDA Organizational Forums◦ Receive regular updates on the work of the

RDA◦ Attend Organizational Assembly meetings and

vote on proposed policies for consideration by the RDA Council and for members of the Organizational Advisory Board

◦ Provide advice to the Council through the Organizational Advisory Board

◦ Be recognized on the RDA Website and at RDA Meetings as a supporter of data interoperability

https://rd-alliance.org/about/get-involved.html

May - July

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Feb- Apr

392991

12741656

20482404

26362881 3126 3434 3698

Africa3% Asia

9%

Australasia5%

Europe48%

North America34%

South America1%

Total RDA Community Members: 3893

from 110 countries

Who is RDA?Type

Members(March 2016)

Press & Media 26Policy/Funding Agency 59Large Enterprise 90IT Consultancy/Development 124Small and Medium Enterprise 220Other 211Government/Public Services 615Academia/Research 2548TOTAL 3893


RDA Organisational Members

RDA Affiliate Members

https://rd-alliance.org/organisation/rda-organisation-affiliate-members.html

Organisational & Affiliate Members

Domain Science - focusedAgrisemantics WGBioSharing Registry: connecting data policies, standards & databases in life sciences WGRice Data Interoperability WGWheat Data Interoperability WGAgriculture Data IG (IGAD)Biodiversity Data Integration IGChemistry Research Data IGDigital Practices in History and Ethnography IG

Geospatial IGGlobal Water Information IGHealth Data IGMarine Data Harmonization IGMetabolomics Data Interoperability IGQuality of Urban Life IGRDA/CODATA Materials Data, Infrastructure & Interoperability Research data needs of the Photon and Neutron Science community IGStructural Biology IG

RDA Interest (IG) & Working Groups (WG) by Focus (1)

https://rd-alliance.org/groups

Community Needs - focusedRDA/CODATA Summer Schools in Data Science and Cloud Computing in the Developing World WGArchives & Records Professionals for Research Data IGData for Development IGDevelopment of Cloud Computing Capacity and Education in Developing World Research IG

Education and Training on handling of research data IGEngagement IGEthics and Social Aspects of Data IG

Total 73 groups: 27 Working Groups & 45

Interest Groups


https://rd-alliance.org/groups

Reference and Sharing - focusedData Citation WGData Description Registry Interoperability WGData Security and Trust WGEmpirical Humanities Metadata WGRDA / WDS Publishing Data Bibliometrics WGResearch Data Collections WG

QoS-DataLC Definitions WGInternational Materials Resource Registries WGNational Data Services IGRDA/CODATA Legal Interoperability IGReproducibility IG

Partnership GroupsRDA / TDWG Metadata Standards for attribution of physical and digital collections stewardshipRDA/NISO Privacy Implications of Research Data Sets WGRepository Audit and Certification DSA–WDS Partnership WGRDA/WDS Publishing Data IG

ELIXIR Bridging Force IG


Interest Groups

Data Stewardship and Services – focusedBrokering Framework WGBrokering Governance WGRDA / WDS Publishing Data Services WGRDA / WDS Publishing Data Workflows WGActive Data Management Plans IGData in Context IGData Rescue IGDomain Repositories IG

Libraries for Research Data IGLong tail of research data IGPreservation e-Infrastructure IGRDA/WDS Certification of Digital Repositories IGRDA/WDS Publishing Data Cost Recovery for Data Centres IGRepository Platforms for Research Data IGResearch Data Provenance IGVirtual Research Environments IG

Base Infrastructure – focusedArray Database WGData Foundation and Terminology WGData Type Registries WGMetadata Standards Catalog WGMetadata Standards Directory WGPID Information Types WGPractical Policy WGData Fabric IG

Data Foundations and Terminology IGData in Context IGBig Data IGBrokering IGFederated Identity Management IGMetadata IGPID IGService Management IGVocabulary Services IG



Interest Groupshttps://rd-alliance.org/groups

THE RDA OUTCOMES LEGEND

Recommendations: are as currently defined and should be presented as the flagship outputs of RDA. We should specifically use the word RECOMMENDATION. They are RDA’s equivalent of the “specifications” or “standards” that other organisations create and endorse. The process for creating and endorsing these is already defined.

Supporting Outputs: are the outputs of RDA WGs and IGs that are fruit of RDA work, but are not necessarily adoptable bridges. “Upon request”, these sort of outputs go through a community comment period and if no major objections or gaps are identified they get the RDA Brand.

Other Outputs: include workshop reports, published articles, survey results, etc. Anything a WG or IG wants to register and report. Upon request, these are published and discoverable on the RDA website but have no level of endorsement.

https://rd-alliance.org/rda-outputs.html

RDA Outcomes: Recommendations & Outputs

Data Foundation & Terminology: a model for data in the registered domain.

PID Information Types: a common protocol for providers and users of persistent ID services worldwide.

Data Type Registries: allowing humans and machines to act on unknown, but registered, data types.

Practical Policy: defining best practices of how to deal with data automatically and in a documented way with computer actionable policy.


Recommendations & Outputs

Metadata standards directory: Community curated standards catalogue for metadata interoperability

Data Citation: defining mechanisms to reliably cite dynamic data

Data Description Registry Interoperability solutions enabling cross platform discovery based on existing open protocols and standards

Wheat Data Interoperability impacting the discoverability, reusability and interoperability of wheat data by building a common framework for describing, representing linking and publishing wheat data



Repository Audit and Certification DSA–WDS: A convergent DSA-WDS certification standard to help eliminate duplication of effort, increase certification procedure coherence and compatibility thus benefitting researchers, data managers, librarians and scientific communities.

RDA/WDS Publishing Data Bibliometrics: improved research data metrics and corresponding services, with the final goal of increasing the overall availability and quality of citations and research data itself.

RDA/WDS Publishing Data Services: A universal interlinking service between data and the scientific literature.

RDA/WDS Publishing Data Workflows: enhance the possibilities for greater discoverability and a more efficient and reliable reuse of research data benefitting other stakeholders like publishers, libraries and data centres.



Call for Collaboration Projects

Co-organization of domain workshops or training courses on barriers, solutions, RDA results and adoption possibilities.

Adoption of a specific RDA output and integration into the infrastructure software stack.

Adaptation of some existing software stack to be compliant with RDA guidelines.

Writing guidelines on RDA output tuned to domain specialties.

In the case of RDA Result Uptake & Test projects collaborations should be short and focused activities with concrete results produced within a 6 month time frame and should be in the order of 15.000€.

More information http://europe.rd-alliance.org/rda-europe-call-collaboration-projects

Call closed on 30 October 2015

RDA Plenary 8 during International Data Week 2016 When? Autumn 2016Where? East Coast, USACo-located with? SciDataCon2016

RDA Plenary 9 When? 5-7 April 2017Where? Barcelona, Spain

RDA Plenaries

Why attend? Working Meeting:

Updates & Progress Knowledge Exchange,

Networking & Direct Interaction

Best Practice, Outputs & Adoption

New ideas, groups, …. https://rd-alliance.org/

RDA Plenary 4 (Amsterdam), 22-24 Sept 2014

Co-located conferences: EUDAT Conference Crowd Computing 2014 Data Seal of Approval Conference 2014, etc.

1st RDA deliverables presented: Data Type Registries PID Information Types Practical Policy Data Foundation and Terminology

Focus on emerging professionals : RDA/EU sponsored 14 European Early Career

Researchers and Scientists RDA/US sponsored 8 Student Interns and 5 Early

Career and Student Fellows

https://rd-alliance.org/plenary-meetings/rda-fourth-plenary-meeting.html

Theme: “Reaping the Fruits”550 attendees from 40+ countries & Co-hosted by DANS, Netherlands

RDA Plenary 5 (San Diego, CA), 8-11 March 2015

1st Adoption Day & Large scale data projects meeting

2nd Set of RDA deliverables presented: Data Citation: Making Data Citable Data Description Registry Interoperability Metadata Standards Directory Wheat Data Interoperability

Focus on emerging professionals : RDA/EU sponsored 5 European Early Career Researchers and Scientists

RDA/US sponsored 5 Fellowship winners

https://rd-alliance.org/plenary-meetings/rda-fifth-plenary-meeting.html

Theme: “Adopt-a-Deliverable”385 attendees from 30 countries & Supported by the San Diego Super Computing Center

RDA Plenary 6 (Paris) – 23- 25 Sept 2015RDA deliverables presented:

Repository Audit and Certification DSA–WDS RDA/WDS Publishing Data Bibliometrics RDA/WDS Publishing Data Services RDA/WDS Publishing Data Workflows

7 Adoption cases: Deep Carbon Observatory, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, Datafed.net, the Materials Innovation Infrastructure, EUDAT Collaborative Data Infrastructure, German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ) & Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure (CLARIN)

Focus on enterprise & climate change: 20 enterprises showcased solutions 3 climate change data challenge winners – Biovel,

Plume Labs, VizonomyFocus on emerging professionals :

RDA/EU sponsored 12 European Early Career Researchers and Scientists & RDA/US sponsored 8 Fellowship winners

https://rd-alliance.org/plenary-meetings/rda-sixth-plenary-meeting.html

Theme: “Enterprise Engagement with a focus on Climate Change”700 attendees from 40+ countries & hosted by Cap Digital – France Co-located conferences:1. eInfrastructures & RDA for Data

Intensive Science2. Persistent Identifiers: Enabling

Services for Data Intensive Research

7 RDA Recommendations/outputs presented:Repository Audit and Certification DSA–WDSRDA/WDS Publishing Data BibliometricsRDA/WDS Publishing Data ServicesRDA/WDS Publishing Data WorkflowsWheat Data Interoperability RecommendationsRDA/CODATA Summer Schools in Data Science and Cloud Computing in the Developing World Interim Recommendations

Brokering Governance Interim Recommendations11 adoption presentations

https://rd-alliance.org/plenary-meetings/rda-seventh-plenary-meeting.html

• 30 international speakers over 5 plenary sessions

• 7 outputs & 11 adoption cases• 8 Working Group meetings• 25 Interest Group meetings• 10 Birds of a Feather• 9 Joint meetings• 2 Organisational Member

meetings• RDA for Newcomers Meeting

357 attendees from 33

countries

Looking forward to seeing you ALL there

https://rd-alliance.org/plenary-meetings/rda-ninth-plenary-meeting.html

<NAME SURNAME>,

<AFFILIATION><EMAIL> <Twitter account>

@resdatall @RDA_US

@rda_europe

RDA GlobalEmail - [email protected] - www.rd-alliance.orgTwitter - @resdatallLinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/ResearchDataAllianceSlideshare - http://www.slideshare.net/ResearchDataAllianceFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Research-Data-Alliance/459608890798924RDA EuropeEmail - [email protected] - europe.rd-alliance.orgTwitter - @RDA_Europe

RDA USTwitter - @RDA_US

Monthly statistics of the RDA community - March 2016

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